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0 pointspinkmuffinere5mo ago0 comments

To be fair, I bet pictures with "Yay Facism!" stickers are probably taken down, as they should be.

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In the early to mid 90's, geek culture had a thing for ironic agitprop. Great stuff... deeply cynical and very Gen X.

Any group that gets its kicks out of pretending to be fools will soon find itself filled with fools who think themselves in good company - Abraham Lincoln

khannn5mo ago

I'm taking up vampire hunting - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

taneq5mo ago

Yeah, that was the big takeaway from the social experiment that was 4chan. If you ironically pretend too long to be trash, you will gradually become trash.

antod5mo ago

"You know who else made laptops wear pieces of flair?"

diego_sandoval5mo ago

Where do you draw the line? One of them says "Socialist alternative".

strken5mo ago

Socialist Alternative is an Australian political org. They're one of the tiny Trotskyist factions that always seem to form any time two or more Trotskyists work together. That's why it's on a laptop next to a bunch of other far left political stuff. They're pretty much the opposite of "Yay Nazism!"

Or were you drawing an equivalence between the two?

anal_reactor5mo ago

There will be a time when people putting svastikas will be considered brave heroes. And then it'll be banned again. And then it'll resurface again. Turns out, "things that are obviously morally right" radically chances over time and across cultures.

poly2it5mo ago

> a time

... and a duality within the present forms of society in which either expression is interesting enough or leads up to a significant event such that we will remember it in the future. No time has been one-sided as in the way you put it.

komali25mo ago

Just out of curiosity, what makes you think that everyone thought Naziism was morally right at its peak?

HeinzStuckeIt5mo ago

Several other European countries imitated German fascism in the 1930s (e.g. Hungary, Romania, Slovakia). This is well known in Eastern Europe because that brief period has cast long shadows to this day. Even in relatively faraway South America, Germany and Italy inspired several political movements.

Sure, not everyone thought Naziism was good, because you can’t find any political philosophy in human history that everyone has the same opinion about. But it was still seen as a model by millions of people outside Germany until Germany started obviously losing the war.

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